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Two types of explicit continued fractions are presented. The continued fractions of the first type include those discovered by Shallit in 1979 and 1982, which were later generalized by Pethő. They are further extended here using Peth\H o's method. The continued fractions of the second type include those whose partial denominators form an arithmetic progression as expounded by Lehmer in 1973. We give here another derivation based on a modification of Komatsu's method and derive its generalization. Similar results are also established for continued fractions in the field of formal series over a finite base field.
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Riyapan, P., Laohakosol, V. & Chaichana, T. Two types of explicit continued fractions. Period Math Hung 52, 51–72 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-006-0012-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10998-006-0012-5